Friday, April 11, 2008

The Annoyed Librarian alters History forever.

So the annoyed librarian had a few drinkies and bloggered about the twopointopians and the eighttracktapians and the hulahoopians and the other technoslaves she enjoys mocking.

But the one group she mentioned that seems to have had an impact on the real world is the cabletvtopians.

I see a story on how the Library of Congress just signed a deal with the cable company that owns the History Channel to allow it "and its numerous sister channels [to] draw from the historical content preserved by the Library of Congress for original specials and documentaries."
Librarian of Congress James Billington said there are over 138 million items in the library's collections, meaning plenty of fodder for historical stories previously untold. Such items include a Gutenberg Bible, George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the first United States map and the contents in Abraham Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated.
Cable TV has been around for at least 30 years and never has the Library of Congress offered such a treasure of information and artifacts to any cable channel. But one drunken mention from AL and everything changes.

If you doubted her powers in the past, believe them now. Believe! Beeelieeeeeve!